Like many organizations in Canada, yours is probably not fully prepared for the mandatory breach reporting requirements coming into force under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) November 1, 2018.

The University of Calgary has succeded in establishing that the Alberta FOIPPA does not require a public body to produce to the Privacy Commissioner documents over which solicitor-client privilege is claimed...

Records produced while investigating a physician's professional conduct are barred from production in legal proceedings even if those records are not ultimately produced before a quality assurance hospital committee...

A notable development is the amendments made by the Province of British Columbia on July 25th to the BC Human Rights Code to add "gender identity or expression" as a prohibited ground of discrimination.

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